Earth Changes

Heavy rainfall and deep floodwater hits Freetown, Sierra Leone - at least 6 dead, thousands left homeless

Abdul Rashid Thomas
Sierra Leone Telegraph
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:33 UTC

Many parts of Freetown - the capital of Sierra Leone, are today under several feet of water, following several hours of rainfall which according to our correspondent in the city, started in the early hours of this morning.

In the mountainous village of Regent, there are reports of huge cracks opening up on the hills, reminiscent of the causes of the 14 August 2017 mudslide, which took the lives of thousands of people living on the valley.

The country's office of national security has been informed, and are believed to be taking precautionary measures to relocate residents from the areas at risk of another deadly mudslide.

This morning's heavy downpour has left several people trapped in their vehicles as well as their homes, with little if any emergency assistance in sight, as could be seen in some of the pictures and videos below.

Comment: Two years ago and in the some month of August: Sierra Leone death toll 450 after mudslides, 600 still missing, feared dead

50 pilot whales strand, 20 die in Iceland - 2 weeks after similar event locally

France24
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:00 UTC

Some 20 pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland, emergency services said Saturday, only two weeks after a similarly unexplained mass stranding had already killed dozens of the long-finned cetaceans.

The dead whales, part of a group of 50 stranded whales, were discovered late Friday near Gardur, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the capital Reykjavik.

According to Icelandic media, locals began rescue efforts to save the whales even before emergency teams arrived.

Comment: Interestingly yet another stranding of pilot whales (5) happened on July 29 on Redington Beach, Florida but on that occasion all were rescued.

Holy hail storm: Grapefruit-sized hail batters Edmonton, Alberta

Jordan Omstead
CBC News
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:26 UTC

A picture of a large hailstone that dropped in northwest Edmonton during Friday night's powerful storm.

A strong thunder and hail storm battered parts of Edmonton and the surrounding region Friday night, with grapefruit-sized hail stones cracking windshields and damaging homes.

Environment Canada reported hail stones larger than 100 millimetres in diameter fell around Spruce Grove while wind gusts topped 70 km/h west of Edmonton.

People shared photos and videos of the hailstorm on social media and others assessed damage to their home.

Water discovered in Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could trigger explosive eruptions

Caleb Jones
Reuters
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 11:07 UTC

© S. Conway/U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory via AP
In this Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, aerial photo, a small pond of green water is seen at the lowest point of Kilauea volcano's Halemaʻumaʻu Crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii. The discovery is the first time water has been observed in the Big Island crater in recorded history. When lava interacts with water it can cause explosive eruptions, but scientists say it's too soon to know if the pond will cause a violent reaction.

For the first time in recorded history, a pond of water has been discovered inside the summit crater of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, a development that could signal a shift to a more explosive phase of future eruptions.

After a week of questions about a mysterious green patch at the bottom of the volcano's Halemaumau crater, the former home of a famed lava lake, researchers confirmed the presence of water on Thursday, officials with the U.S. Geological Survey told The Associated Press on Friday.

"The question is what does this mean in the evolution of the volcano?" USGS scientist emeritus Don Swanson said.

Halemaumau has never had water since written observations began, he said, so the pond is unusual.

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Three days that ended the world

Tony Heller
YouTube
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:14 UTC

More on the inane attempt to link the three day European heatwave to carbon dioxide.

Cherry picking season arrives in Greenland

Tony Heller
YouTube
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:01 UTC

In this video, I make fun of the mindless mass hysteria about recent weather in the Arctic.

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Climate sensationalism in a chilly baking world

Adapt 2030
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:51 UTC

Its interesting how there is unequal weight given to temperature anomalies across the planet in 2019, record heat in Europe dominates the headlines yet summer snow in Canada, USA and Russia goes unnoticed as well record cold temperatures on the same continents. News casters fired for voicing concerns that "Code Red" is being overused and desensitising viewers.

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Comment: Extreme times: Two days after cyclists raced in record-breaking heat, Tour de France halted by hailstorm and mudslides

The mainstream media has focused almost exclusively on record-breaking hot temperatures this summer....promoting the man-made global warming/climate change narrative...yet it ought to be noted that at the other extreme, many new cold temperature records are also being set across the planet at this time:

'Loud trumpet sounds' heard coming from the sky in North Carolina

Sott.net
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:36 UTC

YouTube user 'ShadowBandit91' shared footage of 'trumpeting sounds' he heard in the North Carolina sky on July 15, 2019:

So, I was coming into work like normal. I got into work at 3:30am ... no construction, no loud vehicles, nothing on the two major highways. It is quiet when I come into work. I've never heard the sound before or since I've been coming into this building for 11 years (more less.)

In my 28 years of living, I've never heard a sound like this at all. It sounds like mating calls for whales or a really good trumpet player that can throw sound from hell-a-far. It was so loud when I walked into the building, I could hear it before I could even open the warehouse doors and for those of you have not seen videos of my warehouse, you can tell what doors I'm talking about. I could hear that clearly so when I stepped outside this is what I heard:

Strange 'rumbling horn-like sounds' heard in northern Indiana

Sott.net
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:50 UTC

On July 2, 2019, YouTube user 'iamtheicelord' uploaded footage of strange "unsettling" sounds he heard in the skies of Merrillville, Indiana:

Earlier this summer right in the middle of June 2019 my friend and I stepped outside to grab some air and started hearing these strange low rumbling horn like sounds coming from the distance. We got a couple of them I'm recording. Let us know what you think they were.

What's causing the mystery deaths of dolphins and whales off the Tuscan coast in Italy? 34 so far in 2019

The Local (Italy)
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 17:24 UTC

Thirty-two dolphins and two whales have been found dead off the Tuscan coast since the beginning of the year, the Italian region's environmental protection agency said Friday.

Autopsies showed many had stopped feeding, suggesting they had been hit by a virus, possibly measles, experts said.

Over just four days at the end of July the bodies of six dolphins were found, the agency's spokesman Marco Talluri told AFP.

"We analysed the stomachs of eight specimens and found that they were half empty, as if the animals had not eaten for two or three days," said Italian biologist Cecilia Mancusi, an expert from the ARPAT environmental agency.